I have to violate the “politics is the mindkiller” heuristic to present the worst argument I’ve heard recently. Actually, it’s two separate arguments from the same person.
First of all he met the proposition “if you can have censorship without fascism, censorship is not fascism (essentially an expression of the law of the excluded middle)” with the reply “then nothing is fascism”
He then further stated
“Socialism is a key part of fascism, therefore socialism is a fascist idea”.
That is actually a verbatim transcription of what he said (I took the screenshot). The fact that the man is an engineer exacerbated my despair.
I have to violate the “politics is the mindkiller” heuristic to present the worst argument I’ve heard recently. Actually, it’s two separate arguments from the same person.
First of all he met the proposition “if you can have censorship without fascism, censorship is not fascism (essentially an expression of the law of the excluded middle)” with the reply “then nothing is fascism”
He then further stated
“Socialism is a key part of fascism, therefore socialism is a fascist idea”.
That is actually a verbatim transcription of what he said (I took the screenshot). The fact that the man is an engineer exacerbated my despair.